Gordon/people

Famous quotes containing the words gordon and/or people:

“He scratched his ear, the infallible resource
To which embarrassed people have recourse.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view “realistically”; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent—war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)